Two serial connections to a PCI interface ?

Can i control a single CBus network via two instances of Homegate running on different PC ? - both connected via a single PCI ?

As the PCI has RJ and 9 Pin inputs can i have one via the RJ connected and one via the 9 pin or does one disconnect the other ?


Thanks



Dean.

 

Hi Dean,

You certainly can, but not in the manner you describe. You need to set one of the PC's to be the "server" and run C-Gate, which does the communication connected to the PCI on that PCs serial port.

The other PC then has Home Gate setup to communicate to the C-Gate on the other PC. The PCs need to be connected via ethernet networking to do this.

 

You will need to use a separate PCI for each instance of HomeGate. Alternatively, as Richo suggests, set up C-Gate as the server and make the 2nd instance of Homegate connect to the C-Gate server.

 

Thanks for the info guys - now trying this, but failing.....

I have Homegate and CGate etc. running on the PC connected to the PCI - all working lovely.

Have installed Homegate on the other PC, connected to network can see other machine fine, but Homegate crashed with an exception error everytime i try to obtain projects from the IP address of the other machine. This closes Homegate but i do briefly see the error 'cant connect to CGate'

Is there something i should be doing on the machine that is acting as server.

Help please !!


Thanks



Dean.

 

Just had a look at the dos screen for CGate running on the PCI connected machine - it says access control refused connection ?
null - checking license ?

Is this sort of connection not allowed with the basic setup ?



Dean.

 

The end of this excellent thread will probably solve your problem.

 

Thanks Duncan.

I now have successfully got Homegate connected at the remote machine to the server...

However i cant make units repsond to the remote PC though

I have checked by loading Toolkit on the remote PC and can control the lights fine so i know everything is connected ok.

I have got Homegate to load the project from the server machine and have confirmed that the buttons on the remote machine correspond to the project.

I cant seem to make any of the buttons active CBus.

Should i see any traffic on either of the CGate windows on remote and server PC when i move the sliders etc.

Any advice appreciated.



Dean.